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feng_shui_houseBecause at the moment I could really use SOMETHING. I woke early, worked on several of the current projects, tidied up after the sand-blasting, and then was really wiped out, so I lay down with Tara purring on my chest and tried to nap. My mind didn't want to settle for worries, but I finally convinced myself things wouldn't get bad for at least a few weeks.
EDIT: Pool guy called back. He's found out stuff that contradicts some stuff...shall add the details.
Then the pool guy called just as I was about to fall asleep.......AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH...he tried to pull a permit for just 'repair' and the city not only refused the permit they said that the walkway around the pool encroaches on the neighbors' easement, AND the metal shed does, too. They told him he'd have to DESTROY the walkway on two sides of the pool, and I'd have to either move or destroy the shed!
Pool guy is going to try to talk to them today and convince them to let him leave the walkway in, because hey, you can't not have a walkway around the pool. But he's pretty sure I'd have to do something about the shed. Man, that'll be FUN. But then what about the OTHER stuff that George was warning me about? If they're this crazy even BEFORE an inspector actually is here, what else will they do?
Pool guy thinks that if they don't listen to him, I'll have to go down to city hall and beg for a variance. I know that people who offended against *us* by building a fence that encroached on the easement of our rental property (leaving only a narrow alleyway to get to the front doors) & we complained as they were building it, it wound up going to court & the people stood in front of the judge and said 'we're good Cubans, nice people, just like you, judge' (uh huh) and the judge smiled and granted them a variance.
Well, I'm not a Cuban, so I don't expect I can pull that. Just because the walkway has been there since 1955 and never bothered any of our neighbors.
I told pool guy I was about ready to ask him to tear up the contract & I'd pay for what was already done and have him instead smash up the bottom of the pool and fill it in. The city charges me $5500 a year in taxes to live across from the city's most stinking sewer, and they WORRY that I have a walkway on the easement.
I hate Ehouse. I hate Hellholeah.
EDIT: Pool guy called back, he found a nice guy at Zoning who said it's not the city complaining, but the utilities, and I have a choice of 2 things to try. Either pay for a complete records' search (prob. week to ten days) in the hopes that the original builder back in 1955 had a permit approved showing the pool deck where it is, or call up each of the utility companies and have each one send out a person to look at it and approve it and write me a letter from each one giving approval. Pool guy is very nice to be trying so hard to help me by doing stuff really the homeowner ought to do. Window Boss of the Company That Is Now Under a Gypsy Curse wouldn't even do the things the city told him HE had to do. *fingers crossed* I have no idea what the company that did the pool did before I was born- for all I know they built it without any permits at all. But I don't like the idea of being at the mercy of several different companies to get permission- it'd only take one of them saying 'NO' for me to be skrud. So I asked Pool Guy to please try the records' search. If that fails, I'll try the utilities.
Am going to go try to put the blinds up now.
EDIT: Pool guy called back. He's found out stuff that contradicts some stuff...shall add the details.
Then the pool guy called just as I was about to fall asleep.......AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH...he tried to pull a permit for just 'repair' and the city not only refused the permit they said that the walkway around the pool encroaches on the neighbors' easement, AND the metal shed does, too. They told him he'd have to DESTROY the walkway on two sides of the pool, and I'd have to either move or destroy the shed!
Pool guy is going to try to talk to them today and convince them to let him leave the walkway in, because hey, you can't not have a walkway around the pool. But he's pretty sure I'd have to do something about the shed. Man, that'll be FUN. But then what about the OTHER stuff that George was warning me about? If they're this crazy even BEFORE an inspector actually is here, what else will they do?
Pool guy thinks that if they don't listen to him, I'll have to go down to city hall and beg for a variance. I know that people who offended against *us* by building a fence that encroached on the easement of our rental property (leaving only a narrow alleyway to get to the front doors) & we complained as they were building it, it wound up going to court & the people stood in front of the judge and said 'we're good Cubans, nice people, just like you, judge' (uh huh) and the judge smiled and granted them a variance.
Well, I'm not a Cuban, so I don't expect I can pull that. Just because the walkway has been there since 1955 and never bothered any of our neighbors.
I told pool guy I was about ready to ask him to tear up the contract & I'd pay for what was already done and have him instead smash up the bottom of the pool and fill it in. The city charges me $5500 a year in taxes to live across from the city's most stinking sewer, and they WORRY that I have a walkway on the easement.
I hate Ehouse. I hate Hellholeah.
EDIT: Pool guy called back, he found a nice guy at Zoning who said it's not the city complaining, but the utilities, and I have a choice of 2 things to try. Either pay for a complete records' search (prob. week to ten days) in the hopes that the original builder back in 1955 had a permit approved showing the pool deck where it is, or call up each of the utility companies and have each one send out a person to look at it and approve it and write me a letter from each one giving approval. Pool guy is very nice to be trying so hard to help me by doing stuff really the homeowner ought to do. Window Boss of the Company That Is Now Under a Gypsy Curse wouldn't even do the things the city told him HE had to do. *fingers crossed* I have no idea what the company that did the pool did before I was born- for all I know they built it without any permits at all. But I don't like the idea of being at the mercy of several different companies to get permission- it'd only take one of them saying 'NO' for me to be skrud. So I asked Pool Guy to please try the records' search. If that fails, I'll try the utilities.
Am going to go try to put the blinds up now.
